the club can show the rest of what happened. >> let's go to the videotape. >> washington d.c., go ahead please. hello? hello washington? one last time time >> is this mr. bryan lamb? would you hold one month for the president? [laughter] >> we don't have a commercial ready. >> mr. lam andb students, i came upstairs to the study and turned on the set and there you were. i watched long enough to hear several questions that showed your concern about the exclusionary rule. evidently, i did not finish the answer. you are so conscious of the clock going but i did not mean that the police would be free to do whatever they wanted in the line of getting evidence and breaking the law. i did explain the exclusion rule is not a lot. it is something called case law. judges made rulings in a court and he's become president. --precedent. >> classic damage control. >> this gives us a word said -- it on to say a word about brian lamb. tell us about him. >> he was the kid with a football. i want to say thanks for a couple of people. we have to start the top with brian lamb. steve janger and all the other

later that day i drove on to washington d.c. but, again we're talking july 4th, 2005, to rendezvous with this gentleman sitting over here, john, and he even reverse this. he had staked out, he is my stake out guide -- the exact spot because again photography is about alignment. you want to align different elements so that you can get the shot. and there is a spot and maybe sam will show you along the potomac where the three monuments all line up. and that is what the shot, that you can't be too far this way or too far that way. has to be right there. of this was my spot and that was the spot i was looking for and john stake it out amongst 100 of a deep into a thousand people. noaa and as i walked to the crown there was a band playing and as of the band played one of them, they had america the beautiful appropriately on july july 4th and i started to look at it. again impartially the sense of my own destiny, i started focusing on america. now you might say maybe the lemonade was bite, but suddenly another anagram appears -- ameri

this talk was hosted by the closeup foundation in washington, d.c. >> hi everybody. i got to see when rose asked a question of who's been here before and so i want to say to those of who are veterans of the closeup program, one welcome back and to shows of you who are new, welcome aboard. i'm sure all of you know or you wouldn't be here that closeup remains the gold standard for civic education programs in washington, d.c., so congratulations for participating. i'm going to introduce you to a gentleman who, like me, has been associated with coastup for many, many years. now, joe sohm has been called many things, some of which are repeatable here, even though we are a camera in the room. but you know, a photographer is the continuing he's referred to the most and that begins to tell the story, but it doesn't really tell the story, and story may be the operative word, because i think if you were trying to really disstill this, joe is a story teller. the pictures are just part of the presentation, but tears a lot more going on than just the pictures and the project you'

people will come here, they will see the third floor where there is a beautiful skyline view of washington d.c. where there will have a reception, then the ballroom doors will open, they walk into the grand ballroom which is gorgeous. this would cover paneling, beautiful whites and a stage where the end of the next two hours roughly they will be a tremendously delicious meal and then they're going to have some of the best entertainment we can offer. >> to is the entertainment this year? >> i get the question of law because we have been announcing who the entertainment was until tuesday. traditionally it is a stand-up comedian so because this is the first dinner for the new administration our first dinner at the washington center, we went all out and have entertainment coming in from a variety of contributors. first will start off with several debut of the new video kalman, he is barack obama -- i can't give it away but it features the music of the musicians who play with jane's addiction appears in his rocking, can tell you that, it is hilarious and then we will have the awards. the first one

she's interviewed by washington, d.c. delegate eleanor holmes >> every weekend is filled with books and authors on book tv. look for our entire schedule online at booktv.org. >> now house republicans unveil their plan for regulating the financial markets. it differs in many respects from the legislation favored by congressional democrats and the white house. speakers at this event include financial services ranking member spencer baucus and republican whip eric cantor. this is about a half hour. >> i thank you for coming. i'm joined by republican whip cantor. we expect conference chair mike pence very soon and the republican leaders of the financial services committee who have involved in the past five months in crafting a comprehensive regulatory reform proposal which we're announcing today. let me start by recognizing our distinguished whip eric cantor for a statement. >> spencer, thanks very much. i'm honored to be here with the ranking member, spencer baucus and the senior members of the financial services committee.

there was no cable in washington, d.c. later after this encounter, the founder of c-span, and the founder of "close-up" talked about this. they got a surprise caller from the white house. one person was screening the calls. she gets a call that says, please hold for the president of united states. she thinks it is a crank call. she realizes it is legitimate and types a message to the speaker. it said, next call, washington, dc this was confusing him because there was no cables and a washington, d.c. our next washington, d.c. go ahead please. hello? one last time, washington. >> yes, i am sorry. hello, would you please hold one moment for the president. >> [laughter] >> students, i just came upstairs to the study here and turned on the set and there you were. i watched bond enough to hear several questions that shows your concerns about the exclusionary rule. you are so conscious of that clock going by. i did not mean that the police would be free to do whatever they wanted to do in the line of getting evidence and breaking

coming here as i first came to washington, d.c. in 1988 as a reporter for "the washington post" and i didn't know who frances perkins was myself and i took a tour of the sites of d.c. and one of the things that stuck in my mind is this huge labor department building named after frances perkins and i thought there are not that many government buildings named after women so i sort of stored away in my mind and in a little while as we continue in the trip along the mall tour bus driver said he had a joke and it was one american woman had the worst child birth experience? a long pause, frances perkins. she spent 12 years in labor. [laughter] this is how much the tourists new and were informed about what frances perkins has done and you can only imagine how many people were collecting social security checks, maybe the and free time to be on the tour bus because they were collecting on employment and had no idea who had allowed for the creation of those benefits. one of the things that makes frances perkins extraordinary is the time she w

president, the price tag on government programs just keeps growing and growing and growing here in washington, d.c. in fact, the president's proposal for his budget this year projected a -- quote -- "down payment on health care refume." well, i've told people that, you know, where i come from, we don't make down payments on something unless we know exactly what it is we're buying and so far the american people don't know what they're being asked to buy. and indeed, the other part of that that just staggers my imagination is that we already spend almost twice as much as the next-closest industrialized nation on health care per capita. we spend roughly 17% of our economy, our gross domestic product, on health care. why does anybody think it is a good idea to spend even more? now, if we were getting good value for that spending, that would be one thing. but we know this current level of spending is full of fraud and waste and other problems, and why in the world would we just want to make matters bores by spending more money on top of a flawed health care delivery system? talking about money -- and i

it was known to be hijacked and fought to be heading for washington d.c.. what dothought to be heading fo washington d.c.. what do you do about this? we went to get permission to shoot it down, you're shooting down an airliner with americans on it, probably people from other countries as well, innocent men, women and children. is not a good solution because you only shoot it down if you know it is going to be a threat to something on the ground like the u.s. capitol or the white house, because more people will be killed if it crashes and to those objects but at the same time, should an airplane down over washington d.c. there will be debris. this is a terrible solution, a terrible solution, but it was the only one at our disposal and st. goodness we didn't have to use that. it is much better, as i will do later today, go to the airport, take off your shoes, take off your jacket and put air marshals on airplanes and approach it from that angle, but that was the thought of possibly having to do that, having the authority to do that will send shivers up your s

coming here, i first came to washington d.c. as a young reporter for "the washington post" and i did not know who frances perkins was myself. i think i was familiar with the name. i took a tourmobile of the sites of d.c. and one of the things they really stuck it my mind was the huge labor department building named after frances perkins. i thought wow, there aren't many government buildings named after women so i sort of started the way in my mind. as we continue their trip along the mall the tour bus drivers said that he had a joke for us and it was what american women had the worst child birth experience? a long pause. frances perkins. she spent 12 years in labor. [laughter] this is how much tourists knew and were informed about what frances perkins had done and you can only imagine how many people on that bus have relatives that were collecting social security checks. maybe they had the free time to be on the tour bus because they were collecting unemployment, and had no idea who had allowed for the creation of those benefits.

they are fed up with endless bailouts out of washington, d.c. and they know we can't borrow our way back to a growing economy. and they want this to end. they recognize bailing out every business really means. washington is burying future generations under a mountain range of debt and destroying the foundation of free market capitalism that has allowed the nation to prosper for generations. congress cannot continue to ask our working families who played by the rules and pay their bills to bail out the responsible decisions of others or bail out the failed policies in washington, d.c.. enough is enough. today house republicans are standing with the american people who said loud and clear no more bailouts. this package of regulatory for house republicans are introducing today built on a few simple principles it's time to end the bailouts that's consumed washington, d.c. since last fall and this time to end the government's ability to pick winners and losers and restore some level of responsibility, personal responsibility in the marketplace. it is

i thought maybe this week i would return to washington, d.c., and find the solution. someone would know, provide an explanation. i cannot understand how closing automobile dealerships, those who sell automobiles, are advantageous to the bottom line of the profit of general motors or chrysler. this can't be a market based decision. there must be some political consideration that's ongoing to encourage these dealerships to be closed. the closing of those dearlyships are devastating to communities as well as the businesses that we are closing. at the same time provide no economic improvement in the bottom line of our automobile manufacturers. so, mr. speaker, i again ask those, my colleagues, and those at the white house, the automobile task force is it a political consideration that's occurring to encourage general motors and chrysler to disenfranchise their franchisees, or is there some market-based decision which this is based? yet no one can provide that answer. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? >

host: well, we went to one of the stations that hadn't prepared, it's a public station here in washington, d.c., weta. >> host: kevin harris, what happens to this station on june 12th? >> guest: june 12th we transition. june 12th at noon we go to our four digital channels. and we're excited about it. it's about time, and basically we go to tv 26 which is more adult public television programming and some kids. we do 24/7 kids on weta kids, we do how-to, how you cook, how you clean, how you fix a house, and then, of course, we have those gorgeous pictures public television is really known for, but now it's in high definition. >> host: why didn't the station make the jump back in february? [laughter] >> guest: you have to talk to the folks on the hill that c-span talks to a lot. you know, we were ready to make the jump, frankly, two years ago. we made a lot of investment. we started two years ago creating our four digital channels. we've been broadcasting 24/7 on all of our digital channels since february 1st. and so we've been ready to go. our thing here because we do broadcast to all of our cit

. >> we went to one of the stations that is a public station here in washington, d.c., weta. >> kevin harris, weta, what happens june 12th? >> june 12th we transition. june 12 at noon we go to the for digital channels and we are excited about it. it's a about time to be to go to tv channel six which is more adult public television programming and some kids. we do 24/7 kids on weta kids and we do how to, how to cook, how to clean, how to fix a house and then of course we have the gorgeous pictures, public television is known for what is now in high definition. >> why didn't the station make the jump in february? [laughter] >> you have to talk to the folks on the hill that c-span talks to a lot. we were ready to make the jump frankly two years ago. we made a lot of investment. we started to years ago creating a work for digital channels. we've been broadcasting 24/7 on all of our digital channels since feb first so we have been ready to go. our word thing because we do broadcast to all of the citizens and also to the hill is to show them how it can work especially for public-service bro

. >>> welcome back everybody, national's park in washington, d.c.ny acta and dusty baker meeting at home plate. we're going to play baseball momentarily after this long rain delay. today was a great day in baseball history because stephen strasburg was the first pick by the washington nationals. earlier our own debbie taylor had a chance to catch up with acting general manager mike rucinsky oh. >> thank you johnny. how thrilled are you, mike, to have stephen strasburg on your team. >> we're excited to be able to draft a guy like stephen strasburg, a great physical sized pitcher who has great credentials and we're happy to have him. >> you also add the premier college closer in drew store storen. >> i love his get after it, and the package to pitch at the bag end of a ball game. >> what impact can these two players have on the organization and how soon? >> they are both quick to the beg leagues guys, as we phrase it, there is a lot of things thatting into it, developmental time, but they are college pitchers from great college programs and both throw

where going to take you live now to the washington d.c. convention center for the annual radio and television correspondents dinner. president obama will speak at the event. this is from the onion news network. we're watching it live here from washington on c-span. >> friends and colleagues, good evening. i am brandon armstrong of the onion news network, the world's leading televised news network, which is now broadcast in 100 to three languages in 811 countries. i am sure your disappointed that i could not join you in person for this event. there are several women in the crowd i would rather avoid for personal reasons involving sex i had with them. i took the time to create this recorded message, because this annual dinner is also an incredibly important meeting of some of my most formidable adversaries. every other night of the year is a filthy fight for a few points of ratings. tonight, we grinned widely, leiter our teeth, and call each other friend. after all, it is rare that television personalities are able to take the time to congrat

two-thirds of our people are washington d.c. residents. two-thirds are hired in washington d.c.. we hold a number of job fairs. we try to hire right from our neighborhood. that is an important thing to us. we have succeeded at that. iwe work very hard at bringing n people who are citizens of the district. we think that is a very good thing. it has worked out great. on the business side, things have been great. on the philanthropic side, i want to talk little about that. let's talk with the dream foundation. most of you do not know about it. i want to read a few of the things that we do. let's start with the three big programs that the dream foundation is involved with. first is the urban academy. it has been slow but we have not yet been able to secure the land we have identified. we have been working with chairman gray. we will be very proud to have the third baseball academy. that is the first big project. the second is the juvenile diabetes wing. this is something that is terribly important to us. the centerpiece is that right there. the third big thing is our relationship wit

we want for you a plan in which you and your doctor make the decisions, not washington, d.c. we want a plan that emphasizes prevention and wellness. we want a plan that gives low-income americans more of the same opportunities and choices for health care that most americans already have. and we want a plan that doesn't make it harder for american businesses to compete in the world marketplace by adding to their costs. we want in the end a program, a health care program that your grandchildren and your children can afford and doesn't keep trillions of dollars of new debt upon them, that devalues the dollars that they eventually will earn and the quality of their lives. and as the president has repeatedly said, the best way to do that is to do it in a bipartisan way. but in order to do that, mr. president, we need to put aside the bill that we're working on today in the health committee and start over again in a truly bipartisan way to meet those objectives. i thank the president. i yield the floor. mr. president, i notice the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the cle

washington d.c. spends over $15,000 per student per year i doubt there is a person in this room that would allow your kids to go to school in washington d.c.. it is that bad. not just a question of money but how it is spent. let me give you one quick example of the answers. our gifted kids today come with those of the ones we really want to be inspired because the bill create most of the jobs and come up with those neat ideas to become entrepreneurs for the future. 20% of gifted kids drop out of school. one out of five gifted kids dropped out of school because they are not challenge. we have an incredible school in norah third nevada for the very labor lehigh the gifted. -- one-tenth of one-tenth one-tenth of a percent of the kids in fifth grade that can handle college calculus by midday 15 year-old who just submitted for a science competition his project it is using a nuclear fusion reactor to produce neutrons that at a port for instance you could send the neutron through on this side and measure th

washington, d.c. has a pretty good one. but all cities need good transit systems like the one in washington, d.c. -- and in rural areas so that you do not drive for miles to stand and security lines to get on planes that are expensive. you do have to pay for everything which is aggravating. you could just get on a train. that is our hope. europe has done this right in america has done is wrong. we need to change. hopefully, we can. host: you recently met with judge sonya soto. what were your impressions? guest: she is an extraordinary woman and that she is so comfortable in her ability, so confident, so sure about the way the issue was brought up, so love to, so confident. she has a wonderful character and that is what i look for more and justice than anything else in a despite her critics, she does have a pretty balanced approach to many issues. what i want is one of high intellect with great passion and a great art, someone who understands that their role is to judge fairly. i think she will. host: and finally, hal is bob

last week we were here in washington d.c., capitol heights at the swearing getty gallery and one of ourtributors set that up for us and it was a brilliant affair. we wanted you to know that the network is working. it has changed our lives forever there are people that we love, but we have a person sitting in the front row. she had no idea that i would mention this but freddie lives right down the corridor of where the obama inauguration parade is going and we were invited to come to her house and overlooked from the balcony so do we have been getting photographs we're now in the process of putting up everything that was happening along the parade route, who was going to be there so it was absolutely fantastic that the network was keeping us and we were in our pajamas trying to put it at the book together and seal the deal it has been an extraordinary experience. how is this booktv looked at? people who were in the african-american study, the people of who are in american studies, a cultural and women's studies, a sociology, gender, and they want to take a look at this book women special

mayor adrian fenty and president obama as role models in washington, d.c. hat made good decisions along the way and made our nation's capital proud. bob? >> bob: thank you, debbi taylor. manny very involved in the d.c. community. he has a heart for kids. he has a heart for those less fortunate. and right now the job number one is to get out of this game without having your bullpen totally destroyed for the weekend. jesus colome will be the fourth washington pitcher. he'll take over here, bottom seventh. >> jim: the good thing about being on the road and down by 10 lune runs that you know that they here not going to bat the ninth inning. again -- well, i mean, you're not going to have to save an inning there. >> rob: you're counting us out already? >> jim: i'm just saying it is leaning that way as albert gonzales comes in to play third base and ryan zimmerman gets the rest of the night off. >> bob: he needs a blow every now. ryan plays just about every inning in every game for the nats. robert andino leads off, bottom seven against yes sus colome. >> rob: som

. >> we are here at the washington, d.c. convention center. the first time we have held our dinner outside the facility in years. we are thrilled to be at this state of the arts facilities he, dynamic growth that we have had in was in d.c. people can come here and see the third floor where they see this beautiful skyline view of washington d.c. where they will have a reception. then the ball room doors we will open. they will walk into the grand ballroom. would covered paneling. a stage. and then the next two hours t here will entertainment. >> what is the entertainment? >> traditionally it is a stand-up comedian. our first, we went all-out. of variety of contrary tears. we will start off with ed world debut of a new video. it features the music of the foo fighters, beck. it is rocking. and then we will give two awards. those recipients are secret. they do not know until we announce them. we will continue on with as special reports. and then we will move on. i note they have been working on their speech now for well over a week. and finally we

>> i am karla:, of a politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. and i got into the business because i love to read more than anything. you can see i don't do too much exercise, instead i lie on the sofa and read instead. so i want to tell you that to the books, this is such an incredible year for reading and for books and i am happy to have the chance to talk about this on c-span because i think c-span doesn't bring an affliction to you -- fiction to you and i think fiction can be more true than books about policy or history. my to themes this year our immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own they really don't need me to support them, but i will tell you what they are -- one is never land which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill. he is part dutch in part irish and it is a book that takes place in new york because of 9/11. the second book is -- i0 is done over the name, the currency literary and potato peel by a society which is an epistolary book about the i'll guern

washington, d.c. has a pretty good one. but all cities need good transit systems like the one in washington, d.c. -- and in rural

>> i'm carl:, the co-owner of politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. then and got into the business because i love to read more than anything. you can see i don't do too much exercise come instead that lie on my sofa and read instead. so i want to tell you about the books, this is such an incredible year for reading and for books. i am happy to have the chance to talk about this on c-span because i think c-span. i think it to the themes of this year our immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own and they really don't need me to support them, but i will tell you what they are. one is another land which is received all kinds of awards. it is by joseph o'neill who is part of dutch and part irish. is a book that takes place in new york post 9/11. the second book is the currency literary and i always have to stumble over the name, the currency literary and the potato peel society which is in epistolary book about alan currency in during world war ii and it's a very delightful book about some wo

, the president brought us his budget, and that was the scariest thing i've ever seen come to washington d.c. if you take all the debt that was accumulated from george washington to george bush, he doubles that debt in five years and triple that in 10 years. it is unsustainable. the chinese are getting nervous about buying our treasury bills. if they quit buying treasury bills, if they lose confidence in the dollar, the only reason they continue to buy today is that every other country is worse than ours right now. two to three years from now, is it going to be that way? if we keep running these up and just printing money like we are doing today, and the rest of the world does not continue to have confidence in the u.s. dollar, our economy collapses and it will be catastrophic. we need to turn things around. we need to stand up and get behind us and say enough is enough. it is time to start being fiscally responsible to future generations and not being so selfish that we just give us what we want. [applause] >> we need to take the principles that ronald reagan talked about and apply them to

all right, you are welcome, welcome to washington, d.c. [applause]. >> thank you. >> all right. all right. you look beautiful. >> thank you. >> all right. so, you know, we were chatting a little bit in back and i asked if it was all right with you if we could just girl chat. i mean, we have seen a lot of your -- [laughter] when i say girl chats i mean, get to know a little bit more about the president herself. after all, this is her memoir, right? so, it does give us just -- we want to get a little bit more in sight about you, the person. is that okay with you? >> fine, but you know, don't carry that too far. >> okay. [laughter]. >> i will not. i promise. i promise. so, i know people are laughing at me now. if you want to... start me straight. from the beginning, you were a baby, lying -- >> obviously! >> lying on a bed in your mother's home, and someone came in, and said to your mother, what? >> the title of the book. someone came in, and saw the baby on the bed... saw the baby on the bed -- can't hear? >> i think you have to maybe come down a little bit. >> is that better? [ap

they wanted to be in washington d.c. and so i'm sure they didn't think it was the bottom of the barrel. they thought that was pretty big stuff. >> now, you understand that we are talking about a real campaign. this is not a school project. you were constantly asked if it was a real campaign. >> sure. we had to defend that quite a lot. >> real. >> yes. you're still unsteady. yes. he told them they can do it. doing what they ask you if you would do. but did it really awaken something in you that may have been dormant all the time to mecca. >> maybe. you know, i feel my parents are fairly politically active. barely outspoken about their politics. taught us to have a conscience and the vault and settlement of votes and to be participatory citizens. you know, what a great opportunity to really be a public servant. i already felt like i was a public servant as a teacher. >> you were. >> i just felt taking it on to that next level, really serving my community. i was out campaigning and meeting my constituents and the people and

., that disbanded and celebrating june as the caribbean american heritage month in washington, d.c. this is just part of the bill that was to make in the month that we celebrate caribbean heritage month. finally, might i say proudly that i want to speak of my grandparents, mr. and mrs. jackson. my grandmother and grandfather were true sons and daughters at that time of the king and queen because jamaica was then a colony of great britain. however, their dignity allowed them to know that jamaica could be a free and democratic nation and through the leadership of those in jamaica who recognized that it could be a free nation, they secured their freedom and what a celelbratory time that was. i want to acknowledge so many prime ministers but former prime minister manly, former prime minister patterson, all great leaders that brought greatness to the caribbean and to acknowledge the president prime minister as he continues to work, to acknowledge the first woman prime minister as well that was in jamaica for at least a time in the last two years. we know that she's been called with grea

>> a former commander of the washington, d.c. guard was killed in monday's train crash. are they going to issue a statement about his passing? >> i'm not aware of a statement in the works. obviously everyone who works here grievous for those who lost their lives or who was injured in that crash. obviously the colonel of the d.c. national guard was especially tragic for those who worked in this building or all those in uniform but i'm not aware of any plans to issue a statement. >> could you take this question could we get a statement? >> i just offered a statement. we feel terribly for all the victims of that crash. those who died, those who were injured and we feel particularly soreoful for one of our own the former commander of the d.c. national guard so his loss is felt particularly among those in this building and all those in uniform. >> with the june 30 decline date coming up, i'd like to ask you -- >> i'm glad you're so aware of his schedule, tony. there are other things on his schedule beyond those two trips. but you happen to be right, we won't be doing a press

sally satel who is a psychiatrist as the oasis drug treatment clinic here in washington, d.c. she is a lecturer at yale university school of medicine and author of the health disparities myth, diagnose nosing the treatment gap. diagnosing the treatment gap. and next -- and i will need assistance pronouncing your first name. >> next we have amitabh chandra who is a professor of medicine at harvard, and he is a research fellow in bonn, germany, and the national bureau of economic research in cambridge, massachusetts. his research focuses on productivity and expenditure growth in health care, racial disparities in health care and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care. then we have dr. peter bach who is a physician at the memorial sloan kiterring cancer center. his work has focused particularly on improving the quality of care for african-american patients in medicare including cancer care. he previously served as senior adviser to the administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services where among other things he oversaw the agency's cancer initiati

next we have a psychiatrist at the oasis drug treatment clinic here in washington d.c.. she lectures at yale university school of medicine, a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute and author of the health disparities miss, diagnosing the treatment gap. i will need assistance pronouncing your first name. he is a professor ed kennedy school of government and a research fellow in bonn, germany. his research focuses on productivity and growth in health care, racial disparities and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care. then we have dr. peter barack, a physician at the memorial sloan-kettering cancer center. his work has focused improving the quality of care for african- american patients in medicare, including cancer care. he previously served as senior advisor to the administrator of the center's for medicare and medicaid services where among other things he oversaw the agency's cancer initiatives. i am excited to have you here. this is an issue that we have needed to have a fully fleshed out discussion on these issues brought some time. i

the clerk: washington, d.c., june 10, 2009. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable robert p. casey jr., a senator from the commonwealth of pebnnsylvania, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. ^ mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks there will be a period of morning business for up to one hour with senators allowed to speak for ten minutes each and the republicans will control the first 30 minutes and the majority will control the second 30 minutes. following that the senate resumes consideration of tobacco legislation. there's up to one hour of debate only with time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. we do hope, however, we can reach an agreement to dispose of the pending lieberman amendment and several additional amendments upon the use or yielding back of the debate time on the bill -- that's one hour -- and disposition of the lieberman amendm

the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., june 18, 2009. i hereby appoint the honorable jason altmire to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, rabbi solomon schiff, greater miami jewish federation, miami beach, florida. the chaplain: heavenly creator, bestow the blessings upon those here who have accepted the sacred responsibility to legislate within these hallowed halls, to foster the noble ideals of our sanctified democracy. grant that these deliberations will be ruled by wisdom, purpose and dedication. the prophet malachi said, have we not all one father, have not one god created us all, why do we deal tresh russly one brother against another? help hunger and bib ottry. view us with a commitment to sew the seeds that will turn selfishness into civility, hate red into harmony, loathing into love and bigotry into blessing. help us always to work for the least, the last and the lonely. may we remain com

some bureaucrat in washington, d.c. is going to decide whether or not you can build a house and what the standards should be. congratulations. thank you so much, mr. 10th amendment. m.i.t. has a study this will cost every family in america $3,100 for implementation of this bill. all of the pain that's associated with this bill and quite frankly there is a lot of pain and we will begin to see it as the details unfold. what do we get? i asked a climate scientist who feeds his family basically looking at this issue. if which pass this bill, can you in fact measure after 40 or 50 years the positive impact on our atmosphere? if we are going to spend $thoism 100 and lose jobs and decrase the standard of living, what do we get for our money? he looked me right in the eye and said maybe. maybe you can measure the impact? he said yeah, maybe. there is talk about the study that they performed should this happen or america go to a zero carbon footprint that the impact on the temperature will be like .07 degrees over that entire ti

is performing and this is just a quick depiction of what that looks like given presenting in washington d.c. but literally you can go and break -- the names are on there and you can see how one compares to the next through an element called helms' court and this is just a valuable piece of data for the reform of the system. winfrey look at minnesota and think about it as a model for the country a lot of it is built around how integrated the delivery system is so hospitals in the twin cities in particular have the physicians employed by the hospital, ancillary services employ the hospitals and these are very tightly integrated systems so they're in position to take on a global payment and to manage that much more actively than perhaps would have been the case and number of years ago some and we talked about this feels like something we have tried before a thing this system is in a different place and is a different dialogue with the system leaders are asking those of us on my side of the table to bring that type of payment to them. i think the last time we can all admit the health insurers w

this is a rarity these days in washington, d.c., it is actually a bipartisan bill. bipartisan. people of both parties, working together, trying to solve a real problem and i want to particularly thank senator kennedy and senator dodd for their leadership on the bill. i also want to thank the campaign for tobacco-free kids for organizing more than 1,000 public health groups, faith-based organizations, medical sosmedical associationsr partners. the house, as you know, passed this bill in april on a bipartisan basis. now it's time for the senate to do its job this week. this comes to us as a rather unusual historical and regulatory posture. the fact of the matter is, madam president, we know that tobacco is a killer. it's a killer. it kills 400 thousand americans each year in the united states. including 90% of all deaths from lung cancer, one out of every three deaths from other tips of cancer and one out of every five deaths for cardiovascular disease. the real tragedy is not just that adults choose to smoke and ham their health and many of whom, unfortunately, die premature dea

we have found that in my own group here in washington, d.c. that incremental approaches have borne a lot of fruit. and it has been crucial to us in our independent advocacy to give credit where due as well as criticism. and so praise as well as pressure. and so that is what is going to work with this president. he has legislative history of supporting our community going back to his days in the illinois state house. my colleague from equality illinois reck garcia, who is the leading gay rights lobbyist in springfield in the state house sing it is praises of barack obama. and so we know this is someone who understands our issues and we have to keep working with him. it's only been 150 days. host: lake city, florida. welcome. caller: i'm real interested in this subject. in the early 80's, about the middle of the reagan administration, barry bower, his spiritual adviser testified to congress. it's in c spain's archives because i saw it on c-span. there was a hearing. and a congress person asked gary bower why ronald reagan kept vetoing the aids m

washington, d.c.'s going to dictate how we live and how we shall live and how our businesses will live and it's all bad because d.c. is in control and not the people. this is a bad bill. vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: madam speaker, i am pleased to yield at this time a minute to the gentleman from colorado, mr. perlmutter, who has made many important contributions to this effort. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for one minute. peril peril thank you, madam speaker, thank -- mr. perlmutter: thank you, madam speaker, thank you, mr. chairman. let me read a letter from the national association of realtors. the national association of realtors supports h.r. 2998, the american clean energy and security act which addresses a broad and global array of issues. in closing, the national association of realtors asked for the favorable passage of this. as do duke energy, american electric power, b.p. am

we'll have rationing established right here in washington, d.c. and it's going to be by the comparative effectiveness of the people. some people want that. some people think that's the only way to get health care costs under control. i believe we ought to give the best health care we can to everybody nor should we ration care or ignore the fact that different physicians have different specialties and sometimes because patients are different each of us is a different entity in this world and we have different problems and different genetics and we have different makeups and different blood in a lot of ways. and they keep going and on with the differences. sometimes what works for one doesn't work with another. i see that in the pharmaceutical world all the time. i'm very concerned when we do these type of a bill, we do it in a way that doesn't increase cost and make it even worse than what we have now. i think that language will make it worse. this would correct the language in a small way but nevertheless an important way. >> thank you, senator. l

witness whereof i have set my hand and caused to be afixed the seal of the united states senate at washington, d.c., this 25th day of june, 2009. signed, nancy ericson, secretary of the senate. the chair: referred to the manager -- managers on the part of the house appointed by house resolution 565 and ordered printed. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the house will stand in >> over the next half hour, congressional leaders and president obama talk about climate change and energy legislation that's scheduled to come up in the house tomorrow. >> president obama's first, followed in five minutes by house speaker nancy pelosi, then minority leader john boehner in about 20 minutes. >> on washington journal tomorrow, we'll preview and energy bill with two members of the energy committee, arizona republican representative john shad degree and representative jay infree from washington. and we'll hear about issues facing puerto rico. washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow morning. the sarah mcclinton group is hosting dis

as we know, spending is out of control here in washington, d.c. the american people know that this government doesn't have a revenue problem. it has a spending problem and we are hearing it from constituents all across this nation. as they begin to look at how this should be addressed and talk to us about how we think it ought to be addressed. well, mr. chairman, one of the things that we do know is that in our states which are great labs for bringing forward entrepreneurial ideas and innovating ways to address problems in the public sector, many times they will move to across-the-board spending cuts. certainfully my state of tennessee, our democrat governor went in and made a 9% spending reduction because he had to get in there and address the out of control growth of ten care. our public option health care delivery system that many want to replication nationwide. now, throughout our nation's history, we have had times when this body and our commanders in chief have sought to also do across the board spending cuts at the. cuts. at the onset of wo

unfortunately, even in education washington, d.c., is now about to become americans' student loan center, for 15 million students, because the administration believes washington knows best. instead of having 2,000 banks make 15 million loans, we're going to have the united states department of education make the secretary the banker of the year. and now -- now -- we're discussing in the "help" committee and in the finance committee a brazen takeover of 16% of the economy, which would say washington knows best about our health care system. washington will become america's health care center as well. the health care bill that we're discussing in the "help" committee, of which i am a member, would expand one failed government program -- medicaid -- and create another one, a new government insurance program, a so-called public option. now, those who support the public option -- and this includes our president -- feel very strongly about it, and they speak eloquently about it. they say things like, as one senator said yesterday in our hearing, "we need to keep the insurance companies honest."

more with tierney cahill and washington, d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton in a moment."after words" with tierney cahill and delegate eleanor holmes norton continues. >> host: we are back with ms. cahill, who ran a remarkable campaign for congress. i can't tell you she's one of my colleagues in the house but watch out,

like northern ireland and you see even donner roe -- bono of the music group u2 -- as a kid in washington, d.c. that distance has dissolved in to that extent we can't just look at a new president attending school who's policy at least as he was running for president seemed about dissolving the essence of us and them and seeing every situation not just as it looked to this country but also as it looked from indonesia and hawaii and every point and was telling that all of us lose if we see the personal the other side of the street as an enemy and i think we are speaking word for word the kind of things that done the or the dalai lama were talking about. as i said i am eager to get to the dialogue with eric so i will wind this up by saying i think for most this in this room when we hear or think about the dalai lama we probably see that beaming face looking down at us from a billboard or the person often on larry king live or the person on our neighbors computer as a screen saver riding he is used more as a screen saver than any living being and always is great and it's easy to forget of course 9

paragraph in the time magazine stories as this in total: michelle has done more to reform the washington d.c. schools in a. a half and those reformers can do in five years. she has closed 29 schools, fined 139 teachers, fred 39 principals, fired 200 of essential staff. not a word in that paragraph about bringing resources into the starting system, not a word about turning around dropouts, not a word about connecting the schools to the committee, not a word about supporting the stability of teachers, and the reason i say they are veiled is time magazine calls that reform because those are all proxy is for reform if you buy the idea that schooling is a business. i know by that idea, not in a democracy. in a democracy schooling is a right and a journey, it is a human rights so that's the argument i have and it's not meant to be put down of duncan at all, i wish him well in max bill ayers, how did you become a teacher? >> i became a teacher in 1965, i had been arrested in a -- weird i know -- but is true. [laughter] i was a rested in a city in indiana harbor, michigan and i went to jail and in t

this is money for washington, d.c. part of this stimulus money that's supposed to be helping with us jobs. washington, d.c., department of transportation, will spend $3 million in stimulus moneto expand its smart bike program. the money will increase the program by five times from 10 bike racks to 50 bike racks and from 100 bikes to 500 bikes. neighborhoods expected to get the new bike racks include adams morgan, columbia heights, capitol hill, anacostia and georgetown where the average single family home runs at $1.2 million. boy, now there's an interesting use of money. maybe a wonderful thing to do but i'm not sure what we should be taxing everybody to try to create jobs. we've got a lot of other fun examples. i'm joined by my good friend, bachmann, and congressman bachmann is articulate and a good friend to people who care about jobs and care about fiscal sanity. i yield time. mrs. bachmann: i thank the gentleman from missouri for calling this together so that we could call attention to the job losses that are happ

and what i meant by that is that michelle rhee in washington, d.c., joel klein in new york, paul value las in new orleans and arne duncan in chicago, none of those four superintendents have actually shown that they can actually make a system work. what they have got is tremendous public relations. so i go on in that piece to talk, for example, about michelle rhee who's the most ideological of the four. arne is probably the most practical, the most pragmatic of the four and probably of those four the best choice that obama could have made. but i describe a cover story in thyme magazine where michelle rhee is featured on the cover, and i don't know if you know michelle rhee, but she's a 39-year-old superintendent, and she's got a very -- the picture on the cover is she's carrying a broom, and she looks very mean, and it says how to fix america's schools. and the pivotal paragraph in the time magazine story says this: michelle rhee has done more to reform the washington, d.c. schools in a year and a half than most reformers can do in five years: she's closed 29 schools, fired 139 teachers

i was just at a big party in washington, d.c. last week. [laughter] >> i'm very excited about this and i'm writing a book right now called travel as a political act and this is just 50 pages of this book that i'm doing that put experiences like that i had all over the place which i think is important like 9/12 they can travel like a medieval gesture. we need to do that. i went -- i was just hanging out with my senators from washington state and their staff people and they are enthusiastic into taking this into congress and i think it's very realistic that we could give every person in the house a copy of this dvd and encourage them to watch it. i think it would be a practical single hour to watch it. have you seen it? good. i think it's just educational. so i think we're going to do that. and there's an appetite for this. this is very timely right now. i'm trying to get something called the citizen diplomat of the year award. [applause] >> so there's a recognition that this is -- there's hard power and soft power and sometimes it's better t